Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Nature has no history.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Only a god can save us.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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